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  • Grimaldi RoRo Ship Catches Fire off Italy

    22 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    A RoRo ferry operated by Italian Grimaldi Group caught fire off the coast of Livorno on November 21.

  • Fire breaks out at offshore platform leaving five dead and one missing

    21 March 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Human Capital, Safety

    Based on most recent reports, the fire incident at a platform offshore Gabon has resulted in five deaths while one person is still missing.

  • Fire near Houston Ship Channel Put Out

    10 April 2016
    Business & Finance

    A fire that started in the vicinity of Houston Ship Channel, at a nearby refinery, in the morning hours of Friday was extinguished around 12 p.m. the same day, according to Houston Fire Department. The fire erupted at ExxonMobil in Baytown, TX, and“the huge plume of smoke sent into the air was visible from 22 miles away […]

  • Alaskan Star Rig Catches Fire Offshore Brazil

    15 March 2012

    A fire outbreak occured Tuesday around 14:30 in one of the oil columns of the Alaskan Star rig, operated by the Brazil’s state controlled oil and gas company, Petrobras. The owner of the rig, Queiroz Galvão Óleo e Gás (“QGOG”), said that the fire brigade was immediately activated, and successfully extinguished the fire. QGOG informed […]

  • Fire Hits Rumo Sugar Terminal in Port of Santos

    15 July 2016

    A fire broke out at Brazilian Port of Santos’ Rumo sugar terminal on July 14, causing temporary stoppage of operations at the facility, a representative of Santos Port Authority told World Maritime News. The fire, which started at 4:00 a.m. in a conveyor of the plant, was extinguished some two hours later by the local […]

  • Tug Fire Kills Two at Bengbu Shenzhou Shipyard

    15 June 2015

    Two shipyard workers were killed and one was injured after a tugboat under construction at China’s Bengbu Shenzhou Machinery (former Bengbu Shipyard) caught fire on June 11, according to local media. The fire reportedly started in the tugboat’s cabin, killing one worker immediately, while the other two workers were rushed to hospital. Unfortunately, the help […]

  • Update: Car Carrier Berths at Southampton after Fire

    27 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    The US-flagged car carrier Honor was berthed at the Port of Southampton on February 24 after it caught fire in the English Channel earlier that day. The ship refilled its CO2 system and plans to proceed to anchorage on February 27, ARC informed. American Roll-on Roll-off Carrier (ARC), the vessel’s owner, said that any possible […]

  • Fire Erupts on board MSC Daniela off Colombo

    5 April 2017

    A fire broke out on board a containership owned by Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) some 120 nautical miles off Colombo harbor, Sri Lanka, on April 4, Sri Lanka Navy said in a statement.  After it was alerted by the ship’s local agent, the navy deployed two fast attack craft (FAC) to fight the fire onboard the […]

  • US Navy Ship Catches Fire in Croatian Shipyard

    3 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out on board USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) while the ship was in Viktor Lenac Shipyard, Rijeka, Croatia.  There were no personnel injuries in the fire which broke out on July 31, and was extinguished within 45 minutes by ship’s force and shipyard fire brigade personnel. The cause of fire and extent of […]

  • Update: Maersk Pembroke Engine Fire Put Out

    24 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    The fire that broke out on Tuesday, August 22 in an auxiliary engine of Maersk Pembroke containership while en route to Montreal, Canada has been extinguished. “It (the fire) has been contained and extinguished and power has now been restored to the vessel, including power to the reefer units,” a spokesperson of Maersk Line, owner of […]

  • PIL’s Kota Bahagia hit by fire in Port of Napier

    18 December 2020
    Ports & Logistics, Safety, Vessels

    A fire broke out on board a cargo vessel identified as Kota Bahagia, in the Port of Napier today, December 18, 2020. The fire originated in one of the holds of the Singapore-registered cargo ship owned by Pacific International Lines (PIL) while it was berthed at the wharf.  The 25,000 dwt multi-purpose ship was built […]

  • Port of Santos Fire Extinguished after Two Days

    18 January 2016

    The fire that was burning for over two days at Brazil’s major container port Port of Santos has finally been extinguished, local firefighting units said on Saturday. The fire broke out on Thursday afternoon, January 14th from one of containers containing chemicals on the Guaruja side of the port sending poisonous gases into the sky and spreading over the […]

  • Fire aboard Indonesia-Flagged General Cargo Ship

    30 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    A fire broke out on Indonesia-flagged general cargo ship Caraka Jaya Niaga III-7 while the ship was anchored near Gresik Port, Indonesia, on Thursday, Tribun News writes. The fire is believed to had started while the crew were doing welding work in the engine room, from which the sparks spread to the stern and the […]

  • Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship Catches Fire in the Mediterranean

    23 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Royal Caribbean International’s cruise ship Splendour of the Seas caught fire in one of its its two engine rooms in the morning hours of October 22 while sailing to Argostoli, Greece. The fire was contained and extinguished by the ship’s fire suppression system, according to Royal Caribbean. 20 crew members and 1 passenger were treated for smoke inhalation. One […]

  • Fire Breaks Out on WFSV at Borkum Riffgrund 1

    2 November 2015

    One of the engine rooms of the Beaumaris Bay wind farm service vessel, deployed at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm, caught fire on Saturday, 31 October. There is an update on this article. Read it here: No Fire on ‘Beaumaris Bay’ The German Maritime Search and Rescue Association (DGzRS) reported that its rescue boat Bernhard Gruben immediately responded […]

  • Army Corps Charleston: Dredging on Fire (USA)

    10 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, is conducting a controlled burn on Morris Island to clear vegetation in order to repair the perimeter dikes of the disposal area and prepare the site to receive dredged material from the Charleston Harbor federally-maintained anchorage basin. The 165 acre Morris Island placement site hasn’t been needed […]

  • Fire-hit oil tanker released by Malaysia authorities

    2 May 2006

    A supertanker which was held by Malaysian authorities following a flash fire that killed four people has been released on Tuesday, the ship’s Singapore-based manager BW Shipping Managers Pte. Ltd. said. The 280,000-tonne Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Suva, which was on its way to the Middle East when the incident occurred on Sunday, was […]

  • Engie fires up second Cygnus platform

    8 August 2017

    Engie E&P, a unit of the French energy giant and LNG player, has started first gas exports from the Cygnus Bravo wellhead platform in the UK’s southern North Sea. The unmanned satellite facility, second in the Cygnus development, exported first gas on August 1 to Cygnus Alpha, which itself has been at a plateau of 250 million […]

  • ‘Short-sighted’ fish quotas under fire

    11 August 2010

    Ministers have condemned the governments of Iceland and the Faroe Islands for ignoring agreed fishing quotas for mackerel. The decisions were described as “short-sighted and selfish,” by Richard Lochhead, the Scottish Fisheries Secretary. The Faroe Islands announced last month that they had set their own quota for the fish, three times higher than that internationally […]

  • Cameron LNG fires up third train

    19 May 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The Sempra Energy-led Cameron LNG project has on Monday started producing chilled fuel from the third liquefaction train at its export plant in Louisiana. This development also marks the last major milestone towards completing the first phase of the LNG export project worth about $10 billion. The San Diego-based company expects commercial operations for the […]

  • ULA, Blue Origin to fire LNG into space

    19 September 2014
    Research & Development

    United Launch Alliance (ULA), a space launch company, and Blue Origin, a privately-funded aerospace company owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, have entered into an agreement to jointly fund development of the new BE-4 rocket engine fueled with LNG by Blue Origin. This new collaboration will allow ULA to maintain the heritage, success and reliability of its […]

  • TGS, BGP, Staatsolie embark on seismic survey to map oil & gas deposits in shallow waters

    8 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Research & Development

    Norwegian/American energy data and intelligence player, Tomlinson Geophysical Services (TGS), has kicked off a seismic survey in the shallow offshore area off the coast of Saramacca and Coronie to find oil and gas reserves as part of a joint project with Suriname’s national oil company (NOC) Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), the Chinese Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting (BGP Offshore). 

  • Tug boat catches fire off New Hamburg

    21 May 2006

    Firefighting and police personnel from several agencies Sunday assisted when a tug boat that was pushing a barge on the Hudson River experienced an engine compartment fire. The fire was reported shortly after 11 a.m. with the crafts in the middle of the Hudson just south of White

  • Hapag-Lloyd’s Boxship Hit by Fire Reaches Bahamas

    6 February 2019
    Business & Finance

    Hapag Lloyd’s ship, which suffered a fire last month while en route to Halifax, has arrived in the Bahamas.

  • Lloyd’s Register updates guidance on fuel cell installation on ships

    7 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Certification & Classification, Green Marine, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Technology, Vessels

    Lloyd’s Register (LR) has released updated guidance on the installation of fuel cells on ships.